Books to demystify data science and data surveillance

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Numsense! Data Science for the Layman: No Math Added

Kenneth Soo,Annalyn Ng

Reference text in top universities like Stanford and Cambridge Sold in over 85 countries, translated into more than 5 languages

Want to get started on data science? Our promise: no…

$85.99

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Everybody Lies

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters - and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess the truth.

$29.99

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Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work

Alex Rosenblat

"A Naomi Schneider book"--Preliminaries.

$44.99

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Monitored: Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data

Peter Bloom

The corporate world is watching us, but why does no one watch them?

$75.99

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The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age

David E. Sanger

From the premiere New York Times Washington correspondent, a stunning and incisive look into how cyberwarfare is influencing elections, threatening national security, and bringing us to the brink of global…

$32.99

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Big Data: A Very Short Introduction

Dawn E. Holmes (Faculty Member, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara)

An unimaginably vast amount of data is now generated by our on-line lives and businesses, At the same time, our ability to store, manage, analyse, and exploit this data is…

$23.99

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Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech

Cyrus Farivar

A book about what the Cambridge Analytica scandal shows: That surveillance and data privacy is every citizens’ concern.

$40.99

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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Cathy O'Neil

A former Wall Street data scientist sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabric

We live in the…

$24.99

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